The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that a non-profit that he has founded will have the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation, countering China’s insistence that it will choose
Egypt’s petroleum ministry said on Tuesday that it received a report from oil and gas production company Offshore Shukheir oil Company (Osoco) about a capsized drillship in the Gulf of
The Quad grouping of the United States, India, Japan and Australia called on Tuesday for the perpetrators of an Islamist militant attack that killed 26 in India-administered Kashmir to be
A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia’s biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding
Hong Kong’s de facto central bank said on Wednesday it sold $2.25 billion against the Hong Kong dollar after it hit the weak end of its trading band.The city’s currency
Tunisian customs has seized nearly 43 kilograms of cocaine during an intelligence-led operation in the coastal province of Sfax, the General Directorate of Customs announced on Tuesday.The operation, part of
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Tuesday that the Lebanese government had officially submitted a request to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
The Iranian military loaded naval mines onto vessels in the Persian Gulf last month, a move that intensified concerns in Washington that Tehran was gearing up to blockade the Strait
As Europe and North America swelter through heat waves, people in South America are contending with equally extreme weather at the other end of thespectrum: a sudden cold snap.In Buenos
Italy limited work outdoors, France shut schools and Turkey battled wildfires on Tuesday in a European heatwave that meteorologists said was “exceptional” for striking so early this year.Spain confirmed its